Table 1

Prevalence of tendinopathy

Total
(n=1993)*
Men
(n=891)
Women
(n=1095)
P value men vs women†
Current lower limb tendinopathy‡116 (6)68 (8)48 (4)0.002
Current Achilles tendinopathy63 (3)38 (4)25 (2)0.012
Current patellar tendinopathy31 (2)20 (2)11 (1)0.027
Current plantar fasciopathy25 (1)10 (1)15 (1)0.623
Past lower limb tendinopathy‡664 (33)344 (39)318 (29)<0.001
Past Achilles tendinopathy383 (19)219 (25)163 (15)<0.001
Past patellar tendinopathy240 (12)124 (14)116 (11)0.024
Past plantar fasciopathy152 (8)66 (7)85 (8)0.766
Current or past lower limb tendinopathy‡691 (35)361 (41)328 (30)<0.001
  • Data are presented as n (%).

  • *The total population includes five gender-neutral runners and two runners who did not fill in their gender.

  • †P values were obtained with a Pearson χ2 test; statistical significance (p<0.05) is indicated in bold.

  • ‡Either Achilles tendinopathy, patellar tendinopathy and/or plantar fasciopathy. The prevalence of any injuries is unequal to the sum of the prevalence of the separate injuries because some runners had more than one injury, currently and/or in the past.